Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 20, 2011, 16:21:Western Digital also bought Hitachi Global Storage, too, not that long ago. Which is unfortunate as Hitachi used to make some really good, reliable hard drives. Unlike every WD drive I've ever owned or come across.

Every HD thread has anecdotes like this. Hard drive makers have bad batches but none are really more reliable than any other. In fact many share parts from the same manufacturing facilities. The great google hard drive test demonstrated this aptly, google it for more info.